TONIGHT ON NETFLIX: The final shot of this movie has everyone in the audience on their toes

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With a particularly severe dissociative identity disorder, a Philadelphia zookeeper named Kevin Wendell Crumb has already developed 23 distinct personalities. And the 24th, far more violent than the others, threatens to break out at any moment. Although his mental balance is more fragile than ever, despite regular conversations with a psychiatrist, Kevin kidnaps three young girls and holds them in his house.

Directed in 2016 by M. Night Shyamalan, Split marks the return of the Indian-American filmmaker (already launched by the excellent The Visit a year earlier), after a slightly more difficult decade populated by titles such as Phenomena, After Earth or The. The last airbender who struggled to convince the public.

Far more successful than its predecessors, Split tends to hew closer to Shyamalan’s early films like Sixth Sense, Signs, and of course Unbreakable. This psychological and haunting thriller, served by a very effective staging and a breathless screenplay, benefits above all from the extraordinary performance of its lead actor: the remarkable and thought-provoking James McAvoy, who constantly manages to juggle the multiple personalities of his protagonist.

But beyond the excellent performance of the main actor, Split also impressed with the final plan, which the audience discovered in the cinema in 2016. If you have never seen a Shyamalan film before, we recommend you not to continue reading this article to preserve the surprise effect.

At the end of the featurette, when young Casey (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) is found and Kevin manages to escape thanks to the appearance of his last personality (the monster), his escape is announced on air. TV news.

Sitting among customers a DinnerOne of the viewers is particularly interested in the news broadcast. As the camera slowly approaches him, the audience finally recognizes him: it’s Bruce Willis! And more precisely about David Dunn, the hero was endowed with incredible physical resistance, which the actor already played in Unbreakable, one of the first feature films. M. Night Shyamalan.

With this final plan, the filmmaker reveals to his fans that from the beginning, the split took place in the same world as Unbreakable: the real world, but still inspired by the comics of Marvel or DC Comics, in which certain individuals can develop extraordinary. Powers.

Three years after the split, in 2019, Shyamalan will reach the end of his project with the production of Glass, the ultimate crossover where Kevin Crumb (James McAvoy), David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and Elijah Price will develop together. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson).

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